[Tripwire-dev] Problems with automake problems and when builddir is not srcdir

[Bernard L. <thi...@ho...>]

Dear List,
                        I can't find the live sources, though I see various 
references to CVS.
What follows is therefore based on the last release (2.4.0.1). Apologies for 
any
duplication.

(a) I assume the BLFS 'gcc 4'  patch has already been applied.  I attach a 
copy.
     tripwire-2.4.0.1-gcc4_build_fixes-1.patch

(b) gcc -pedantic -Wall gags (correctly) on many unwanted semicolons
     which have been put after function-type macro invocations.
     tripwire-2.4.0.1-bl12_gcc4-1.patch

(c) Even after cleaning up the sources, it still won't build if builddir != 
srcdir.
     Inspection showed that the $(top_builddir)/{bin,lib} directories were
     expected to be present already, but aren't (assuming a clean directory
     initially).
     After some threshing around, I decided that 'configure'/'config.status'
     was the best place to create them, so I did a little hacking on 
config.in .
     This is most graceless, and I suspect I'm missing a better way to do 
it.

     There is some mysterious tat in the old Makefiles which tests whether
     the target directory exists and simply stops if it doesn't.  Feel free 
to
     put this behaviour back if it has a use of some sort.
     tripwire-2.4.0.1-sepbuild-1.patch


(d) As I discovered while working on the previous patch, the autotools
     automagical actions require automake-1.8 .  I can move up to
     automake-1.9.6, after running aclocal.  Fine - but now several of
     the Makefiles end up with duplicate 'all:' targets, and make gags.
     Ho-hum... inspection revealed that the all: targets are really a
     mistake anyway.  What's wanted is an all-local target instead.

     The modifications for this are in
     tripwire-2.4.0.1-automake-1.patch

It all works for me now with
aclocal/automake from the automake-1.9.6 package.
My autoconf is 2.60
My m4 is from the GNU coreutils, version 5.97

   I hope this is useful to SOMEONE, I've
spent enough time on it...
                                                           Bernard Leak

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